Help me name my puppy!

[hellymelly]

Maybe I should put this in baby names? Anyway she is red coated, and has a temperment to match. We are completely stuck. At least, we have a list but nothing fits, even though the names are nice in themselves. She is a pretty puppy but will be quite an elegant rough coated adult dog.

Rhoda? Rhonda?
Clancy?
Rowan?
Sorrell?

Rowan was on our list but is a good friends name so that has sort of vetoed it.

I like old lady names...Edie, Ethel, Doris, Audrey, Mabel?

What about Rowena, then? Or Rohina?

Blaze/Blaise
Scarlet
Ruby

What breed is she?

Poppy

Radley

Scarlett

Sorrel

Ethel a possible, that is on our list, Scarlet and Ruby both small girls we know. Am trying to think of historical or literary dogs but my brain has seized up.

Poppy would be good as she was born on 11/11, but it is my close friend's dog and also a little girl we know. My dd likes Rusty but I am not sure. Keep 'em coming folks!

Toto?

Lorelei

List of fictional and literary dogs.

It's wiki, but might be a good starting point.

Red

Ginger?

Love Ginger as big Fred Astaire fans, but shouting "OI GINGER" on the beach might not go down well.... Ditto love Red, and had it on our list, but feel maybe its not an easy sound for a dog, and "Reddy" isn't great. Red is still a possible though.

Copper
Pumpkin
Willow

Willow another friend, Copper my best friend's dog, and Pumpkin my mother's communal cat. Everything I think of is either an elderly relative (DM, MIL !) or a friend's child/pet. My last two dogs had nickname type names but nothing is springing to mind. She is very wilful and firey, seems like a very clever dog but is certainly a handful as a pup. Only 9 weeks old though so she will hopefully calm down a bit.

Blaze

There was a mad dog in a Jilly Cooper book called Sevenoaks . I love that name

She's more of an inferno than a blaze. She's currently trying to destroy a tulle tutu. DD is still wearing it.

Tutu toots for short

Dora

(Short for Adorable, haha)

Or Nora

Or Lola

Or Mabel/Maude

Know an awful lot of small girls called Lola, and a Nora. I really like Maud but no one else in the family approves. It is on the shortlist at the moment though. I once met a grey wire haired terrier called Brillo. Still my favourite dogs name, but agree Sevenoaks is fab. (I do love Jilly).

Maple? They have red leaves don't they? I have a Mabel :)

Rita?

Acer - the Japanese maples - lots of red leaves there!
Fern - short for inferno
Etna or some other volcano of your choice
Candy - short for incandescent